2005

2005 fall issue of interlude magazine from interlude-magazine.com

full scan from mcrhollywood.blogspot.com

interview with frank, mikey and bob with mychemicalromanceforum.com 2006

interview was linked on the 2006 mcr website news (home) page

“The big forum interview with My Chemical Romance!

Reporters: Imre (poison amy) and Lisette (Lica)
Bandmembers: Frank, Bob and Mikey
Place: The Melkweg (Milkyway), Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Date: Wednesday August 31st, 2005, 3.30pm

After a lot of stress and the prospect that the interview might be cancelled, it was finally time to go upstairs and meet the band. Two hours later than scheduled, but hey, they were there so we’re not complaining! Our palms were sweaty and our hearts were racing, but we managed to remain calm and behave like proper journalists instead of squealing fangirls.

L: Let’s start with our list! We’re already talking about messageboards so lets continue on that. Some people sometimes claim to be one of you when they are on forums or other websites, what do you think of that?

F: I don’t understand it really, to me it’s kind of like that game the Sims, they’re spending so much time leading this fake life while they could be doing their own thing, and if your dream is to be in a band you should go out and practise instead of playing a video game or pretend you’re somebody else. It gets really creepy when those people do that and put out pictures of you and say a loved one or your dog. When they do that and then talk to other people on your behalf, that really angers me because we don’t know what they’re saying to other people and they might give advise and others might believe it. Internet can be a great thing, but it can also be a really evil thing.
I: We have a rule against talking about your private life.
Frank: Thank you. I appreciate that.

Mikey: That’s a big problem with MySpace, because some of my friends actually are on MySpace and they get messages, I don’t know how they knew that my friends are on there, but these are people that aren’t even in bands and they would get messages from ‘me’ on MySpace. It’s really weird.
I: They know everything. Trust me.
Bob: That’s ridiculous.
F: I’m still a huge fan of music, but when I was a fan of a band I would never ever be that intrusive. You know what I mean, to go as far as walk on someone’s bus and sit down and go through someone’s things, or try to steal something…
I: There was one girl last week, she was at one of the shows in London and she was proud that she ripped something off your arm!
F: [sad tone] Yeah, yeah…
I: She was bragging about it all over the internet.
F: I know…
L: How do you feel about these things?
F: You know, it’s weird. *thinks* I don’t know how I feel about that. I definitely know that when I was at shows I would bring a souvenir home, but it wasn’t someone’s personal property, it was a flyer or something like that. It’s weird if you wanna go into the crowd thinking ‘am I gonna come out with everything?’
L: Are you nervous when you see a large crowd? Are you worried then?
F: No! Well, no, I mean, it depends. There’s a bunch of different type of fans. You know, there’s people who just wanna say I love you, love your show, and that’s awesome. They respect the music and the art form. And then there’s some people that need to have that souvenir, that need a signature or a picture and there’s some that just scream and try to pull your hair out and that’s ridiculous and then there’s the drunk fan that wants to be the one that punched you. Unfortunately for the people that just wanna say hi or the people that just want an autograph, sometimes they get flooded because the bad apples are so loud or with so many. It sucks to make people wait outside for hours before you leave because I don’t wanna weed out the bullshit, you know what I mean, the teenie ‘oh wow the new N’Sync is an actual band’ you know that’s a terrible thing, but you try to do more good than bad.

L: How was it for you Bob, when you joined the band they were already on their way to become very successful, how was it for you to step into a band that was already on their way?
Bob: When I first started it wasn’t really sure that… Well, I don’t think anybody thought that it was gonna be this successful. When I first started it was still in the van, playing shows for like a hundred people. It wasn’t like this when I first started. As far as the kids being crazy, obviously they *nods towards Frank and Mikey* get it a lot more, but it’s just strange for me.
L: Well, you’re completely accepted on the forum, everybody loves Bob, they have it in their signatures. *grins*
F: How could you not love Bob?!

I: When you started out, did you ever imagine being nominated for 4 VMA’s against Green Day?

F: No, not at all!
I: How crazy is that?!
F: Pfff! It’s flattering.

M: It was a great experience. The whole thing.

F: I’m still reeling from it. I’m really glad it’s over.
I: Were you nervous?
F: Oh god, yeah. I definitely threw up before.

M: You can see me biting my nails on camera. Every time they were showing Jamie Fox you can see me right behind him biting my nails a lot. I was really freaked out.

F: It’s one of those things where.. Growing up I didn’t get to watch them all the time, but I saw bands like Nirvana play it and Guns’n’Roses. So just to be there and think of all the things that happened on that show and to actually play it, it was ridiculous.
I: Because of the MTV awards you had to do the two festivals in England on the same day, how was that? Were you nervous doing those shows?
B: It was tiring really.
F: It was very tiring, yeah. And again, we kept like thinking of people that played it before. You know what I mean. I’m definitely keeping the two passes and I’m gonna frame them. It was rad. To do Reading and Leeds and especially on the same day, it was crazy!
B: We were supposed to fly to Leeds and we couldn’t get on a bus and go to Reading, because we wouldn’t have enough time to set up, so we were supposed to take three helicopters and I was so psyched about that! I was so excited! It would have been so awesome to fly on a helicopter! But then something happened with the weather at Reading and they wouldn’t let the helicopters get that close to so many people, so we just took a plane.
L: So the helicopter experience still has to take place.
B: Yeah. We’re gonna do it one of these days. I don’t care, even if it’s on a day off, we’re taking a helicopter ride!
L: Are you a thrill seeker?
B: I … *thinks* Kind of. I guess so.
F: As long as it’s got something to do with helicopters or motorcycles or black vans, that kind of stuff.
I: You wouldn’t go horseriding on the beach.
F: *laughs* I don’t think he’s that horseriding-on-the-beach type of guy.
B: No. I wanna go skydiving one of these days.
F: I’m not!!!
I: Why not?
F: If you’d asked me a couple of years ago to do it, I’d go ‘yeah, fuck it!’ but now I’m just too happy. You know what I mean?
I: You don’t need that.
F: Yeah! I don’t need to do that.

Then suddenly Bob exclaims: What is wrong with these people?! *reads from book* What would happen if you saw Mikey walk into the bathroom with another toaster? Signed: Bob Bryar’s official bitch.

M: It wasn’t a toaster, it was a heater. I was putting a space heater in the bathroom when I was sick or something. I brought this heater into the shower so it was warm when I got out. It’s not the smartest thing in the world to do, but I was like ‘whatever, I’m fucking freezing’, but apparently they turned it into a toaster.
L: But you were fine.
M: Yeah, I’m here right now.
*all laugh*

L: For the video from The Ghost of You, you guys have your hair really smooth. We understand how you get your hair like that, but we were wondering how did they get Ray’s hair totally smooth? How much stuff did they put in there?

F: You’ll see it on the making of the video, he has like these two little buns.
B: Did they flat iron his hair too?
F: They did something. It was all flattened out. It was all bundled together in this little fist of a bulb, so they could only shoot him from the front and part of the side. It was crazy. He was gonna cut his hair and we were all like ‘no don’t do that!!’.
I: Did he ever tried to hide objects in his hair? To smuggle them inside?
F: Hide objects in it? He might.
B: *thinks* I don’t think so.
*All giggle*

I: Another question they asked is: if your tourbus driver got ill, who would you trust to drive it?

F: Bob.
I: Yeah? Why?
F: Cos he’s done it before.
B: It happens a lot when you have to move a bus. When I used to tour with other bands, our drivers would just be like ‘hey, you wanna drive?’ and then I’d drive for like 1000 miles.
L: It’s cool to drive something that big, isn’t it.
B: Yeah, I like to drive and being on tour you never get to drive anywhere. If you’re not in a bus you’re in a cab or if you’re not in a cab you have somebody else driving you, so you know I take every opportunity I get to drive.

L: If you could describe your life so far in 5 words, what words would you choose?

M: Tiring, wonderful…

F: Surprising, uhm, definitely tiring…
B: Red Bull.
I: Hey, that’s two words!
B: Oh sorry! *laughs*
F: Coffee.
B: There you go, coffee. Fun!
(All at the same time) Proud.
F: Prun! *grins*

M: Yeah.
B: How about proud-fun?
I: We’ll make that a new forum-word!
B: Prun.

I: Have you ever read any of the fanfictions people write about you?
*guys laugh*
M: My friends sent me one once. It was creepy! My friends are interested in all that stuff, so they all sit online and send it to each other and laugh. And then one of them emailed one to me and it was something really fucking out of hand.

F: I heard Mikey’s hot for me.
I: The hottest couple is you and Gerard actually.
F: Oh really? We’re the hottest couple?
B: That’s amazing.
I: That’s actually one of the most active parts of the forum, the fanfiction section.
F: Wow! That’s crazy. My god… (kind of unsure) Well, if that’s what gets you hot, go for it.

L: Do you have something with you when you go out on stage, like a lucky thing?
B: High fives.
F: Yeah we do, like high fives before we go on stage. I don’t think there’s any charm I have.. I think it changes like I’ll have something for a time that I feel is lucky, but then it’ll probably break or something and you get something new… Like these shoes *everyone looks at Frank’s feet* are lucky I think. None of it’s really lucky at all of course. *thinks* I have these dogtags that I wear a lot, but I can’t wear them on stage because it hurts my neck.
I: Yeah and someone might steal them!
F: Yeah that’s it, but I wear them all the time, except when I’m playing.

L: Yeah, you go crazy on stage and sometimes you’re lying on the floor, how are you able to play like that?

F: You get used to it, like with anything. When we’re playing a new song, like right now we’re playing a new song. Well, not new new, but new for us because we haven’t played it in so long, so ah, we’ll play eh *looks at Bob* should we tell them? *Bob nods* Alright, we’re playing Jetset tonight and I’m not used to playing that song, so I’ll just stand there and make sure I hit every chord.
L: So you’re not going crazy.
F: *laughs* No, but you know what I mean like it’s hard because I get into it and I would do it, but at the same time if it’s so new I can’t. Once I’m comfortable with it I can do whatever I want.
I: Is there a favourite song when you play?
All: Prison!
F: Yeah, Prison is like a band favourite.
B: Yeah we like to play that. It’s become the song that when we need to play something for a soundcheck we pick that. I really like playing Jetset too though.
I: Why didn’t you put it in the set before?
F: We’ve never played certain songs, I mean like never ever played them. I think Jetset was one of those until we were like ‘yeah lets finally get this out’. We had about five songs to pick from for the headline tour, some older stuff that we haven’t played in a really long time and there’s this song called Cubicles that we’ve never played. I think you guys played it (to Mikey)…

M: Yeah we’ve played it on a couple of shows.

F: But I’ve never actually played it.
I: It must be nice to do a different set.
F: Yeah! You know it’s fun to be doing something that you haven’t played in a really long time because it puts a spin on things and it kind of challenges you.

L: Most places have a very active local music scene, do you ever go to a band of the local music scene when you’re in a city?

F: I would love to if we had a second off, but we never do.

L: And back home in New Jersey, do you go there to local shows?
F: Yeah, if we’re home for a while and there’s a show going on, I’ll go see it. But it’s hard because we do this for a living and I mean we love what we do and we love music, but sometimes the last thing we wanna do is go to a show. It has to be a really good show, you know what I mean.
I: Yah, but it must also be part of your job to keep up to date about new bands.
F: Yeah, well we tour so much and we hear so many things from different people, I mean I found out about a lot of different bands from just kids. It kind of keeps you in your favourite scene, you know. And we get demos all the time.

I: A few weeks ago I interviewed the singer from HIM, Ville, and he told me he had been talking to you guys about maybe touring together.

F: That would be cool. Yeah. He’s a great guy. He’s really nice.
I: I know! *grins*
F: I think that would rule. To me, HIM are kind of like the European Bon Jovi. That’s what I get when I listen to them.

Sadly the girl from the record company interrupted us by saying it was nearly time and we could ask one last question. Lica asked it.
L: About the second I’m Not Okay video; it starts off with Ray and Gerard sitting there and Gerard says: I don’t wanna make it, I just wanna… What does he wanna do?
F: Ok, the original line was: I don’t wanna make it, I just wanna rock! And we didn’t like it. If you keep an open end you can make it whatever you want it to be, you know. The rest of that, the whole opening scene, was written out. It was scripted and we were like ‘this isn’t really working’ so Ray actually re-wrote everything. Everything you hear in the video, other then ‘I just wanna’ is something that Ray wrote maybe ten minutes before we shot it!

Then the girl from the record company came back inside to tell us we really needed to wrap it up and Frank practically begged her to do two more from the book, like he suggested when we started out. Bob flips through the book.
B: Bam! *points* All time favourite sad song?
M: the Smiths – Asleep. That’s the fucking saddest song ever.
B: That Jimmy Eat World song off of that show..
F: Angel song?
B: Yeah.
F: Oh yeah. Ah, geez, Angel Angel. Oh, right, ready?
*flips through book again*
F: When you guys stop and think about how you ended up where you are now, do you feel really lucky and jump for joy, or do you don’t give a damn at all? *laughs* I think we are the luckiest people in the whole fucking world.
B: We’re very proud of ourselves!
F: To be able to say that, you know, you’ve accomplished goals, that you set for yourself so long ago and this is awesome you know, like to be on tv or on the radio – fuck the radio and tv! To hear kids in different countries or different states sing along to songs that you wrote in your basement is the most surreal experience that you’ll ever have. And to have it mean something to people you never thought you would ever meet. That right there is the most amazing thing.

We had a minute to go on a picture with them and say goodbye. Frank told us that he really appreciated what we are doing for the band and thanked us for everything by giving us both a very tight hug. As you can probably imagine, we high on adrenaline for the rest of the day. The guys were lovely and very happy to see that all of you had posted so many questions for them. Thank you forum members, and thanks My Chemical Romance for making this all happen!

Second group picture

Saying goodbye and packing our stuff

Last minute chatting

Frank telling us how much he appreciate the work we’re doing on here”

08/31/2005 3:30pm the melkweg amsterdam the netherlands with frank, mikey and bob. interviewed by irme and lisetta of mychemicalromanceforum.com

interview with frank, mikey and bob with mychemicalromanceforum.com 2006

photos from the making of i’m not okay shoot from mychemicalromance.com 2005

“PHOTOS FROM THE VIDEO SHOOT

Check out photos from the video shoot for “I’m Not Okay.” Video coming any day now, folks: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10“

the a7x/mcr media player linked on the news page on mychemicalromance.com 2005

warped tour diary from frankanthonyierox3 on yt

source: youtube.com

flickr says “05/12/2007 seattle wa” which can’t be right

source: Flickr / cieraphotography

12/04/2005 97x next big thing coachman park clearwater fl

on 97x youtube

2005 mtv my chemical romance warped tour diary pt.1 – frankanthonyierox3 on yt

12/03/2005 buzz bake sale sound advice amphitheatre west palm beach fl

kesephiroth on deviant art has more pics from the show

2005 mtv my chemical romance warped tour diary pt.3 – frankanthonyierox3 on yt

earlycuntsets:

earlycuntsets:

columbus, ohio 9/15/2005

stacy chambers on flickr

mikey has the patch on here ughh mysterious patch chronicles

FRANK TOO?

from britishpunk.com 2005??

2005 mtv my chemical romance warped tour diary pt.2 – frankanthonyierox3 on yt

source: youtube.com

abrandnewshadow:

from fuse november 2005 – fuse released mcr’s interviews in hd

“Musician Interview with: Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance”

Recently, I chatted with Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance and below is what he had to say:
FLES: What are your favorite songs from “Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge?”

Gerard: The most special song to me is ‘Helena,’ which is about my grandma.  I think my Favorite song to play live and my favorite on the record is ‘You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In Prison.’ I think it’s very important for us as a band to write songs like prison because it’s kind of constantly breaking boundaries
of what could be done by a modern rock band and
still work. I think it’s important to do those things
and take risks. I think it’s the most important song
on the record for that reason.

FLES: When you went into the studio to record the album how many songs did you have and how did you decide which ones would make it onto the album?

Gerard: We actually went into pre production with not that many, I think we had about half a record, then we got really inspired and ended up writing a whole bunch of songs, tweaking sections of songs we previously had and fragments [of songs] became songs. We had become so inspired we got finished with reproduction a week early. I’d say there really isn’t anything left over, but like two songs. One of which was kind of a joke and the other one was an acoustic thing we wanted actually wanted to have the whole band but by then we didn’t have time to redo it.

FLES: How long did it take to record the album?

Gerard: I think only two months.  I think we would have gotten it done a little faster than that but [producer] Howard [Benson] wanted to kind of paced the record because we started moving so quickly, because it was so spontaneous. He said, sometimes if you make a record too fast it gets away from you then when your done with it you realize there’s lots of stuff wrong with it. So there were lot of moments were [we] had to stop for a few days here and there.

FLES: How do you decide which songs are releases as singles?

Gerard: We don’t.  I think it’s the smartest thing a band can do is not to decide what your singles are because then you don’t write songs to be singles. We let the label decide. That way you can literally honestly say to yourself we don’t write singles, we write records, and you can really retain your artistic Integrity that way. So we gave them [Warner Brothers] the record literally sight unseen and said “here pick the singles, if you find any at all.” They found four, at one point there were six songs they were very excited about, then decided on four of them.

FLES: What was your reaction the first time you heard one of your songs on the radio?

Gerard: It was off our first record, [I Brought You My Bullets You Brought Me Your Love], and I heard ‘Vampires Will Never Hurt You,’ on a college radio station and it was probably the biggest thing to me in the world. To this day, even hearing “Revenge” songs on commercial radio isn’t as big a deal as that first time hearing it on just a college radio station. I think it had like a hundred mile radius.  

FLES: Does the band have any plans to release a live CD/DVD?

Gerard: We have been filming footage since the last warped tour and we still have a camera out. I don’t know, we’re talking about it.  We feel usually people will put out DVD’s in order to sell as many DVD’s as they did records. That to us is kind of a cheap and sleazy thing to do, ‘cuz their hot at the moment so lets rush a DVD together and get it out. If we put one out it’s going to be because we have so much footage that really tells the complete story of the band as far as we when we had signed to a major [label] the process of recording a record, making the record, and then busting our ass touring on it for the whole time. I think, if we get enough footage to warrant a DVD, we’ll have one.  Live CD is something we never actually talked about. We’re kind of one of those bands you need to see live in order to get it. We don’t know if a live CD would work for us but it might, I don’t know.

FLES: Well, we’ve seen MCR about 5 times in concert and I think a live CD would be a great. I think you guys are really good live.

Gerard: Thank you very much. I think it would be cool. Maybe in between not this record or the next but after the next record it might be a good idea to put out a live CD.

FLES: How much preparation went into planning and performing “Under Pressure” with The Used?

Gerard: I’d say a fair amount, not a lot. As far as preparation it was really just go ahead and do it. Two bands in two separate countries we had a very small window of opportunity in which to do it. Two of my guys flew out a day early to LA before we started some tour and I was out there and did my vocals. The Used based off of our template of the song put their parts over it and then it was together. We didn’t play it live together until a week into the Taste of Chaos tour. It was pretty much let’s go head and go this. We tried it for two sound checks then we played it live.

FLES: Is iTunes the only place to purchase the song?

Gerard: Yes.

FLES: Will My Chemical Romance and The Used collaborate on more songs in the future?

Gerard: It’s hard to say. We’re such good friends and we’ve known each other for a long time, I’m sure that’s a possibility. We love collaborating it’s a very cool thing to do; especially if it’s for the right reasons. The thing about Under Pressure, it was for a good cause.

FLES: Do you have any Idea how much money the song raised for the Tsunami Relief?

Gerard: I Believe when it came out $25,000 dollars was initially raised and I think it’s still up in the top three (at the time of this Interview) at iTunes and still raising a lot of money.  

FLES: Has the popularity of My Chemical Romance taken you by surprise?

Gerard: It really has. We really believed in ourselves. We believed in the music, we believed in the record, I think a lot more than a lot of other people did.  We kind of always knew it was going to be something very big, in terms of speaking to people but we were very surprised by the same element were not use to we’re use to being normal guys. That’s the whole idea behind the band that were very private normal people that when we get onstage we become like these extraordinary characters almost like superhero’s that’s kind of how it works. It started carrying to offstage and we became really the same offstage and that was really strange for us and it’s harder to deal with especially if your bunch of guys that are just like geeky comic book nerds that have no privacy.

FLES: Where Do You See My Chemical Romance say five years from now?

Gerard: In five years, I would see us getting ready to put out a new record after the next one. We’ll probably put out another record after this then tour extensively on it. Then I’d like to see the band take a break for a little while to reevaluate themselves as individuals and as a band and to kind of evolve again as a band, I think that’s really needs to happen and I think some of that stuff only happens from breaks. I see us probably as almost a completely different sounding band with the same ethics. Maybe on a different level I’m not really sure. I know we’ll still be doing this though.

FLES: Any idea when the next album will come out?

Gerard: We want it to come out two years to the [release] day of Revenge. We probably would have called the record sooner but Revenge ended up doing so well that we’re going to continue to tour on it.

FLES: What was it like for you to tour with Green Day?

Gerard: We’ve been on it for about a week now and we’re probably on the seventh show. I’m going to say for the record they are the nicest guys we’ve ever met. We’ve never seen a band reach out to us so much in so many ways, in a live set, on a person level. They really make us feel like fellow musicians. We’ve toured with bands that were only slightly bigger than us or at our level that acted more like rock stars. They don’t even act like rock stars, they’re just a punk band and they put on the greatest, greatest fucking show in the world. I definitely think they’re the greatest rock band right now. 

FLES: What are your thoughts on being nominated for “Golden gods” award?

Gerard: You know I just found out about that. I’m not very familiar with the golden gods award but I am very familiar with Metal Hammer who does those. Metal Hammer is a really supportive magazine and its really great. I wasn’t aware of the award but it feels awesome to be nominated for anything. We kind of stay away from press though, positive or negative, we kind of live in a bubble. It’s good to not want nominations and it’s good to not strive for nominations, If you get them it’s kind of like frosting, it’s a bonus. We were use to for so long being the band who was kind of underrated and we were use to not being nominated for stuff and use to being under the radar for so long even though, we felt we deserved a little more recognition. In a reader’s poll two months ago we were the most underrated band now were the most overrated band. It’s funny to go from underrated to overrated so quickly. You get so exposed it becomes less cool to be into your  band.

FLES:  I have a feeling My Chemical Romance will be nominated for quite a bit of awards in the future.

Gerard: Thank you. We have a good feeling about that stuff too.

FLES: Gerard, Thank you for your time.

Gerard: No problem. Thank you very much.

My Chemical Romance is from Newark, NJ and tour on a regular basis. Their music in on Warner Brothers Records and is available at the usual outlets.
Online users may purchase their music at Amazon.com. For more band information visit the official My Chemical Romance website . To sample music by My Chemical Romance visit their page at myspace.com.

Interview by Michael Montes – Copyright © 2005 Florida Entertainment Scene – All Rights Reserved.“

photo is from the sun dome tampa florida 04/18/2005

more photos from blackvelvetmagazine.com (why I think it’s this show)

11/01/2005 wolverhampton civic hall wolverhampton england

source: imnotokay.net

lotms

dailygwhiz:

day 121

(bonus helena)

2005 band page from mychemicalromance.com

from the helena game on mychemicalromance.com 2005

08/12/2005 warped tour tweeter center camden nj – musicmattersmedia.com

james gill the interviewer released this ray (& bob) interview from 02/04/2005 he gave after the islington academy london england show.

01/05/2005 newcastle university england – open_heart_zoo on lj

happiest most amazing birthday to mikey!!

mikey wave

gif cities & 2005 mikey-way.net

03/10/2005 taste of chaos 03/11/2005 taste of chaos cobo arena detroit mi – dyanna on flickr

frank: I spilled coffee all over me. thank you. I was so excited that we won! I high fived fall out boy… and then spilled my coffee i’m sorry. uh we have some people we wanted to thank real quick

gerard: first thing we uh, we wanna thank our fans because they are the best fans in the world. that the main thing. we’ve got some people at home. our crew, our work crew that sticks by us every day and we know they’re home so we want to shout out to them incase they’re watching.

crunche from 2006 mychemicalteam.br (brazil)

02/21/2006 trl awards

they won “best group that actually plays instruments”

edit of oliviaa’s clip (yt)

pt. 1

parts (2, 3, 4)

earlycuntsets.org website sources – where I got all my mcr pictures

first of a series. due to tumblr limits on how many links you can post. this full idea will be continued on future posts. for now here’s 2002- ½ of 2007. this is pictures. will make a separate post for youtube/recordings.

been needing to fully source my website so here we go! wanted to share with other kool mcr fans.

old fansites/website appearances:

most popular – theimmortalityproject.com

mcr’s old website [2002, 2003, 2004, 2005]

magazine scan archive – mcrhollywood.blogspot.com

more mcr flyers here than anywhere – theydrewblood.blogspot.com

gerard pic/interview 2003 – artsucks.com

show pics:

(8/18/2003 & 04/28/2004 washington dc, 08/20/2004 gillette stadium foxborough ma and 06/13/2004 baltimore md) – brokenvoices

(09/13/2004 & 01/21/2005 birmingham academy) – blackvelvetmagazine.com

(rainbow montreal 01/06/2003, kool haus toronto ca 02/10/2003, salle lx montreal ca, 08/25/2003) – junkedcamera.com

(bottom of the hill sacramento ca 1/23/2003) – sacramentomusicarchive.com

I do not know this show, 2003 – idolize magazine

04/03/2004 majestic theater detroit mi – schwegweb.com

05/07/2004 bakersville ca – rocksandiego.com (kira olsson-trap)

10/13/2004 kansas city mo – grrphotography

03/11/2005 taste of chaos cobo arena detroit mi – schwegweb.com

03/13/2005 taste of chaos st louis – grrphotography

03/16/2005 td waterhouse arena orlando fl – jencray.com

03/20/2005 st paul mn – shatterthelens.com

07/16/2005 fairgrounds, salt lake city – trent nelson

08/07/2005 warped tour orlando fl – jencray.com

08/08/2005 warped tour verizon wireless lot charlotte nc – josh hofer

08/12/2005 warped tour tweeter center camden nj – musicmattersmedia.com

11/01/2005 wolverhampton civic hall, wolverhampton england – blackvelvetmagazine.com

03/17/2006 emos austin tx – brooklynvegan.com & andrewkendall

10/26/2006 webster hall ny – dontbescene.com

11/15/2006 nottingham uk – blackvelvetmagazine

1/21/2007 big day out gold coast australia – kylie keene

03/25/2007 cardiff – blackvelvetmagazine.com

07/03/2007 helsinki – deadflowerphotography

flickrs (show pics):

7/25/2003 farmingdale ny – gaelen harlacher

08/16/2003 toronto ca – allfalldownphotography

I do not know this show, 2004 – joel

01/13/2004 night and day cafe manchester uk – tony woolliscroft

04/28/2004 cotton club atlanta ga – mike white

06/15/2004 mr.smalls theater, milvale pa – scapularemix

08/20/2004 gillette stadium foxborough ma – futurebreed

10/26/2004 roseland ballroom nyc – alyssa

01/30/2005 cologne germany – johanna bocher

07/02/2005 warped tour piers, san fransisco ca – laurentertaining

07/06/2005 warped tour pampano beach fl – internetpirateradio

7/28/2005 warped tour quebec city, quebec @ the pepsi colisée parking lot – alec hartman photography

08/05/2005 warped tour st petersburg fl – todd cynic

08/10/2005 warped tour nissan pavillian va – jessica

08/13/2005 warped tour nyc ny – christine natanael

08/23/2005 underworld london uk – sammi hills & lauren siohan

09/02/2005 &09/03/2005 rock in idro milan italy – matteo galli

09/13/2005 station park providence ri – katie o’keefe

09/15/2005 columbus ohio – stacy chambers

09/20/2005 st paul mn – matt birhanzel

10/14/2005 tweeter center camden nj – kristin

03/17/2006 emos austin tx – nicole herbst & allison7821

03/19/2006 recording academy san fransisco ca – james

05/12/2006 sun god festival la jolla ca – sam litvin

08/06/2006 nyc – heather marie ryan

08/25/2006 bramham park leeds uk – dancelike.hell

10/12/2006 virgin megastore london uk – stephen kallao

10/28/2006 & 10/29/2006 voodoo festival new orleans – mandi & voodoo music

10/31/2006 house of blues hollywood ca- veronica murietta

11/09/2006 e-werk cologne germany- sabrina & himychemicalromance

11/21/2006 milano italy – rodolfo sassano

1/24/2007 brisbane austraila – conradpayton

2/04/2007 perth australia – richard giles

03/04/2007 denver co – selene locke

03/07/2007 las vegas nv – heather marie ryan & pamela zabala

03/11/2007 anaheim – scarlet lark

03/21/2007 brighton england – peter hill

04/21/2007 seattle wa – steven friederich

04/22/2007 ft lauderdale fl – heather marie ryan

04/28/2007 williamsburg va – andrew s

05/05/2007 east rutherford nj – maria newman & mimie7981

05/01/2007 toronto ca – liz lulu

05/20/2007 vancouver ca – amy sept

05/21/2007 seattle wa- ciera walters

06/08/2007 leicestershire uk – sara bowrey

06/21/2007 bilboa spain – patriciana

06/23/2007 madrid spain – juan the fly factory

06/24/2007 lisbon portugal – mario guilherme

06/30/2007 hovefestivalen tromoya norway – kim erlandsen

07/08/2007 naas ireland – james quinton

07/25/2007 seattle wa – ciera walters

livejournals:

04/04/2004 bottom lounge chicago il – mechanical_riot

05/11/2004 san francisco ca – from strawberyxlove

01/05/2005 newcastle university england – open_heart_zoo

03/06/2005 daytona ohio – xxmeansyourhxc

03/10/2005 taste of chaos cleveland – dyanna

04/07/2005 barrowland, glasgow uk – elite_cru

part 2 here

chad mueller on flickr

12/16/2005 the hi-fi bar & ballroom melbourne australia

its my favorite part. sorry for the crunches

frank: (kicks box)

ofstage person: aww nice /s

offstage person: guys.. guys…

frank: (pulling down the decorations)

offstage people: noo

interviewer: (to frank) i’m so sick- you’re annoying.

frank: (ducks to miss box thrown by interviewer)

mikey: (throws box at interviewer)

much music yearbook 2005 teyana joy kent on yt

this whole thing

from fuse november 2005 – fuse released mcr’s interviews in hd

from fuse august 2005 – fuse released mcr’s interviews in hd

leaked vs official ghost of you music video

found leaked version here but had to use a video downloader to make it work lol

2006 mtv (text) interview about the leak

ID: PANDORA [mcr short comic about the revenge action figures]

by Ray Zell

WEK: PANDORA, YOUR SPECIAL SURPRISE GUESTS ARE OUT IN THE WAITING AREA.

PANDORA: WHOEVER IT IS, WEK; I REALLY DON’T GIVE A FUCK.

WEK: WHY, WHAT’S WRONG?

PANDORA: WELL, LOOK…

PANDORA: … I’VE BEEN SENT THE MCR DOLLS.

WEK: AND THAT’S BAD BECAUSE…?

PANDORA: IT’S SALT IN THE WOUND! I MEAN, IM PANDORA…

PANDORA: WHERE’S MY MERCHANDISE!? WHERE’S MIS ACTION FIGURE?!

SUNAPP! [breaks dolls]

WEK: PANDORA.

PANDORA: WHAT NOW?

WEK: WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON VOODOO

PANDORA: HEY,C-MON, YOU KNOW I GO TO THE CLINIC FOR REGULAR CHECK-UPS ER…

WEK: I BELIEVE YOU MAY HAVE MISHEARD ME…

2005 kerrang #1083 from mickey r on flickr

03/26/2005 taste of chaos tour everett’s event center everett, wa

from __cutxupxangel on lj

beach-goddess13 on lj

10/08/2005 the arena at gwinnett center, duluth, GA, US

11/06/2005 carlington academy glasgow scotland

taken by elite_cru & dizzy angel on lj

this is real btw

“A WHOLE LOTTA EMO TOUR 2005 – SWEET vs HUGE. THE REVENGE. COMING: APRIL 2005”

I can’t find any results when I google the above text, but there are three separate 2005 livejournal accounts referring to this tour as the 01/27/2005 – 01/28/2005 english dates (liverpool & brixton) 11/06/2005 (glasgow) and 02/04/2005 (islington)

if you recall my post about fans making gifts (ie. frankie bracelet foundation) for mcr, the gifts were to be presented to them on this tour. and their post is where I got the picture above.

my question is: why are the dates scattered almost a year apart?

I guess just different dates of the same tour? january, february, april and november just seems scattered.

as you can see mcr isn’t on the bill even so maybe this tour flew under the radar. was just surprised to have never heard of this tour like ever. lmk if anyone has!

also @xxv4mpyf4ngzz some follow up on the receiving of these gifts:

“I said hey to Ray quickly and apologised for not bringing him socks. He said it was OK. Soaf and Rosie showed him their “I wanna be the next Ray Toro” t-shirts and he got a bit excited.

We went over to say hi to Frank, Lozi gave him the bracelets she had made him. Frank loves bracelets, true story. Alison presented him with THE SIGN.
Frank: “Ass needs tappin’? That’s straightforward!”
Us: *gigglegiggleROFL*”

the show they went to was 02/04/2005 islington academy england

from dizzyangel on lj

elite_cru on lj

and mcr signed their money!

03/31/2005 long beach arena long beach ca on blinkcarouseltd on lj

......

frank: warped tour last year, was one of the funnest tours

gerard: a lot of people descirbe warped tour as punk rock summer camp. and that’s exactly what it is.

frank: good thing about warped tour is it makes you a lots of money [laughs]

2005 warped wednesday on mtv

earlycuntsets:

07/2005 rock sound

english translation:

“mikey’s way” before hitting the road again, heading for Germany, the band members take a lunch break… The waiter asks them if they prefer sandwich bread or a “French baguette”? The Way brothers choose French bread. Once served, Mikey Way’s face falls in front of his roast beef sandwich. “It’s raw!”, the bassist wonders. (the only time of the day when he spoke…) “That’s normal, it’s eaten like that!”, his brother replies. “Oh? Okay…”

“It was unmanageable on the day of the concert. It’s too much stuff in one day. As a result, we rarely have time to enjoy the places where we stop for more than a day.” Gerard then joins the rest of the group in front of the Carrousel du Sacré-Cœur. Together, the five of them happily indulge in a photo shoot organized for an English teen magazine. The photographer is keen to take advantage of the very ‘Frenchie’ setting of the Montmartre district. Under the astonished gaze of a few tourists who wonder what is going on, the group takes their place in front of the merry-go-round. “This is the first time we’ve been asked to smile for a photo shoot!” laughs Ray Toro, guitar. A fan of Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s film, the group then recognizes a few places seen in the film Amélie Poulain. The tour continues, with a few comments on French architecture and culture. As soon as they arrive at the first comic book store, everyone forgets their fatigue and doesn’t waste a second rushing to buy the new Star Wars figurines and other comics.

A customer stares at Frank before asking him if he’s in a band: “Do you play in The Cure?” Frank bursts into laughter and answers in the negative before going to tell the others his little story. After a few purchases (Misfits figurines, etc.), it’s already time to get back on the tour bus. “We write a lot on our tour bus. We’ve practically converted the ‘lounge area’ into a studio! We’ve already written a few songs. We might even go back into the studio after the tour. It’s a bit different, but it’s a logical evolution since Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge,” says Gerard Way, who recently did some backing vocals for Every Time I Die’s new album. But the band’s current news is on the road. “We’re thinking of doing another tour in the United States in September,” Frank continues. “For the moment, nothing is certain, but it could well be that we open for a big band with whom we’ve already played…” Green Day? “We can’t say anything,” smiles Gerard. In any case, playing with Green Day has taught us a lot. Just by watching them. They can fill stadiums and keep a constant communication with the audience. Billie Joe is an incredible frontman. We are much better on stage today, partly thanks to opportunities like these. It’s amazing to go from 300 people to 10 or 20 times more. A real challenge for us and also the best learning for a young band. […] Otherwise, we really want to do splits with other bands. We were talking about a split 45 with Alkaline Trio, it will be done according to our schedules.“ Time is on your side!”

mcr talks about the kickball game(s)

more shots from that day from “97x 2007 a look back” and mcrs recount of the game

frank: ahh shoot. that sucks

gerard: wow.

frank: yeah. that was me laughing at him

gerard: I was probably terrible. I was always terrible at kick ball. oh look at that hair though. It doesn’t really matter how good I am

frank: [laughs] when you got locks like that

frank: oh wow what is that? oh that’s like a burger king crown of some sort. how’d that happen?

(below is about a different kickball game from around the same time)

gerard: oh yeah so we show up and they’re like “you guys are gonna get to play kickball and we had done this one and had a lot of fun. and we were like cool we’re gonna play kickball again alright? and uh it was right around this time actually. because this was like warped era I guess it looks like

frank: yeah. I think we went through like a kickball.. thing

gerard: thing. yeah. and so we show up and there is a team. a professional.. team

frank: a professional kickball team

gerard: of 45 year olds drunk dudes. and their only objective was to completely destroy us. we thought we were gonna get to play with fans

frank: [laughs] yeah. we were like “so wheres the kids that we’re supposed to play with and they where like “oh. they’re here. these-these old men that are throwing up in the corner. when they’re done throwing up they’re gonna beat you in kickball. and we were like “ok” and they were like [the radio censored what ever frank said lollll]

gerard:I remember I wiffed.

frank: [laughs] it was awesome

gerard: there was a ball that came at me and I kicked and I wiffed. and they just laughed. I think I walked off

frank: I think you did.

gerard: yeah. I walked away.

frank: at some point we convinced them that we were yknow changing places on the team and we just left. and they ended up playing the rest of the game by themselves

gerard: yeah. basically

frank: they didn’t even know

gerard: no idea

frank: and I think they didn’t win. [laughing] I don’t know

97x 2007 interview with frank and gerard

earlycuntsets:

2005 fan livejournal has pics of them playing kick ball with mcr.

the fan account is a pretty crazy read if you’re up for it woww

04/18/2005 usf sun dome tampa fl, us is the show they’re referring to.

more shots from that day from “97x 2007 a look back”

horribly crunchy but special to me

2005 (I’m not okay) at 97X NBT 5

2005 ray toro meme/animation

“ray toro vs. the mars volta fish”

by xxgonxx on livejournal

earlycuntsets:

the princess frankie bracelet foundation (est. 2005)

on 2005 livejournal

details in the comments 😂

other 2005 livejournal foundations from chemicalromance

to be presented to them 04/2005 at the “whole lotta emo tour 2005: sweet vs huge – the revenge”

2005 fan livejournal has pics of them playing kick ball with mcr.

the fan account is a pretty crazy read if you’re up for it woww

04/18/2005 usf sun dome tampa fl, us is the show they’re referring to.

ray and gerard rehearsing cute

feat. very still fedora frank forever

making of helena mv

help wtf timeline is this

2005 german tv interview

from LadySMix 09/08/2007

this video originally had a fanmade parody dub but audio has been removed because of a derogatory comment. thanks to @bondilluns for translating the spanish parody dub otherwise i would never have known!

“you don’t know pain! on their website my chemical romance brag about how many injuries they have sustained during their live shows. mikey broke his toes. frank knocked out a few teeth. ray got a scar on his head and gerard tore his lips. after the five from new jersey released their debut album I brought you my bullets you brought me your love. while they thrilled the rock world in 2002 they also lived to excess in their private lives. gerard swallowed vodka and pills, drummer bob having suffered a nervous break down. “this has only made us grow as a band” believes gerard. and the new album three cheers for sweet revenge proves him right”

04/2005 bravo (germany)